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MODERN UGHT= HOUSES
AND BUOYS.

across. A steel reed, free at one end, vibrates in the resound¬
ing cavity when condensed air is driven through the trumpet
by machinery. Were it not for frequent stoppages during re¬
pairs the machine would make a cheap and effective fog-

JBegun in April No. 2. Buoys & Sound Signals.

UR former chapter was confined to
the subject of light- houses, but near

the close we made mention of an elec¬
tric spar buoy in the harbor of New
York. This introduces us to the topic
which is now before us, but before
entering upon it permit me to say a few
words about the value of the electric
light as a signal at sea.

In 1884 the United States Government
erected at Hell Gate, Astoria, N. Y., an
enormous iron tower fitted with nine
electric lights of great brilliancy. Two
years after it w T as pronounced a failui e
and destroyed by dynamite.The lightwas
so intense that it blinded the eyes of the
pilots who were thus unable to guide
their crafts.

The Statue of Liberty Enlightning
the World, in New York harbor, fui-
nishes another example of the power of
the electric light. It contains nine
duplex lights in the torch which is
_ raised 305 feet above the sea-level.

In a summary of an official report of the Light-house Com¬
mission it is repoi ted—

“That for ordinary necessities of liglit-house illumination,
mineral oil is the most suitable and economical illuminant, and
that for salient head-lands, important land-falls, and places
where a powerful light is required, electricity offers the
greatest advantages.”

Let us now proceed with our subject. The following sound-
signals are all used to guide mariners : sirens, trumpets, steam-
whistles, whistling-buoys, bell-buoys, bell-boats, bells struck
by machinery, cannons, rockets, and gongs. Nearly all of
these devices require at least a few words of explanation.

Those who have heard the siren will never forget the dis¬
mal, but penetrating shriek emitted by this weird instrument.
The larger siren consists of a huge trumpet with a disk,
pierced with twelve radial slots, placed in its throat. A revolv¬
ing plate back of the disk,containing as many similar openings,
rotates at the rate of 2,400 revolutions per minute. Each rev¬
olution causes compressed air to escape from the twelve slits
mentioned above, thus producing 28,800 vibrations per minute.
Under favorable conditions the siren can be heard from 20 to

30 miles.

The Daboll trumpet is another contrivance which has
worked wdth fairly good success in certain places. The huge

trumpet is usually 17 feet long with a flaring mouth 38 inches

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signal.

Nobody acquainted with the sea would hesitate to describe
an ordinary buoy. But aside from these common floats there
are others ingeniously made which are more difficult to
explain. The smaller cuts of the engraving illustrate the
more common varieties, while the central figure represents a
whistling-buoy—an automatic machine of great value to mar¬
iners.

A. B. Johnson, in his report on The Modern Light-House
Service, describes the whistling-buoy in the following brief
paragraph:

“It consists of an iron, pear-shaped bulb floating 12 feet out

of water. Inside the bulb is a tube extending from the top
through the bottom to a depth of 32 feet, into water free from
wave-motion. The tube is open at its lower end, but projects,
air-tight, through the top of the bulb and is closed with a plate
having in it three holes, two for letting the air into the tub e,
and one for letting the air out to work the 10 inch locomotive
whistle with which it is surmounted. These holes are con¬
nected with three pipes which lead down to near the water-
level, where they pass through a diaphragm which divides
the outer cylinder into two parts. The great bulb which buoys
up the whole mass rises and falls with the motion of the waves,
carrying the tube up and down with it, thus establishing a
piston-and-cylinder movement, the water in the tube acting
as an immovable piston, while the tube itself acts as a moving
cylinder. Thus the air admitted through the valves, as the
buoy rises on the wave, into that part of the bulb which is
above water, is compressed and forced through a 2 1-2 inch
pipe, which, at its apex, connects with the whistle.”

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That is to say, that the motion of the waves
compresses the air inside the buoy, and that this
compressed air blows the whistle. On the coast
of the United States 62 whistling-buoys are in use,
valued at about $1,000 each.

The bell boat, a costly, clumsy contrivance, has
now given way to the bell-buoy, which, like the
whistling buoy, works automatically. A hemi¬
spherical buoy, flat on top, supports an iron frame
work to which is attached a heavy, iron bell. Near
the base of the bell there is a horizontal, grooved
plate upon which a free cannon-ball plays, rolling
about inside the bell, as the buoy is tossed upon
the waves. It makes you think of the death knell
of some lost mariner as you approach one of these
buoys in a turbulent sea.

Tongued bells are used in nearly all the U. S.
light-stations, and in many cases are operated by
clock-work machinery. Their etflcacy, however,
depends much upon distance, and we doubt if they
ever were the means of saving life during a heavy
storm. The French use a hemispherical iron re¬
flector, backed with Portland cement, to increase
the bell range. This may add a trifle to the use¬
fulness of the bell.

Guns are now seldom used as sound signals. In
1856-7 a gun at Pt. Boneta, San Francisco Bay,
California, guided vessels into the harbor at night
during a feg. Speaking of this Prof. Henry says—
“This signal was abandoned because of the danger
attending its use, the length of intervals between
successive explosions, and the brief duration of
the sound, which renders it difficult to determine
its direction with accuracy.”

Gongs are used mostly on light-ships in British
waters. Ordinarily they can be heard for a dis¬
tance of only 600 yards, and are therefore untrust¬
worthy, except when supplemented by some other
signal-device.

The eophone is a new instrument used on board
ships to locate the direction of any sound. When
not in the proper range the sound transmitted
through it reaches but one ear of the operator.
By moving it about in a circle the exact direction
of a sound can at last be determined. One of the
greatest difficulties at sea is telling whence a

sound proceeds during a heavy storm, or when
even the ordinary noises on deck are likely to de¬
tract the attention.

In closing, a few words about the rules regulat¬
ing the use of buoys. Mid-channel buoys in all
harbors of the U. S. are striped in black and white.
All on the right-hand side of the channel are red,
while those on the left are black. When there is
more than one channel in a harbor each channel
has a differently shaped buoy. “Nun” buoys are
for principal channels, and “can” buoys for sec¬
ondary. “Spar” buoys are for minor channels, and
are simply poles stuck into the mud.

These objects at sea are of as much importance
to the mariner as the rail-road signals to the
engineer.

SCIENCE & INVENTION.

Yarn is now manufactured from wood.

By means of the X-rays a needle has been
located in a woman’s thigh, where it had remained
for twenty years. All attempts to reach it had
been unsuccessful until the rays were applied.

A cannon of three-inch bore can be made of
paper mache. The paper is pressed into shape by
hydraulic pressure which prevents the gun from
exploding when charged to carry a projectile thiee
miles. This cannon is of about the same weight as
an ordinary musket and may be easily carried' up¬
on the shoulder.

A new quadricycle is so constructed that the
riders by swinging up and down furnish the pro¬
pelling power. It carries five persons and resem¬
bles a seesaw.

Still another flying machine, this time the in¬
vention of an Italian, Prof. Paroselle, is announced.
A balloon holds it up, and a dynamo drives the
fans. It is strange that with so many flying ma¬
chines on the market one cannot yet ride in the
heavens.

Compressed air is predicted “ to run dumb wait¬
ers, take the place of the horse as a means of loco¬
motion, wash dishes, and rock the baby.” Its
promoters claim that it is as useful as electricity,
and suggest that it be supplied to families like gas
and water through pipes leading from distributing
stations placed at intervals throught the large
cities.

Ground corncobs and hickory bark are used in
the manufacture of imitation maple syrup. Their
function is to give to brown sugar and water the
flavor of the real maple.

A bee loaded with honey weighs three times as
much as the unloaded insect.

Jungfrau, the famous snow-capped Alpine peak,
which only the boldest climbers have heretofore
been able to approach, can now be reached by
means of an electric railway which ascends the
mountain through tunnels and elevations coi -
structed at great expense.

George H. Robertson, a boy only twelve years
old, has invented a street car sand distributor
which works as well in damp as dry weather.

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A PERILOUS ESCAPE.

In Two Chapters. Chapter II.

BOUT ten o’clock one quiet even¬
ing in June Mrs. Sands was
startled by a loud knock at her
back door. Peering through the
blinds to see who had arrived at
so late an hour she beheld the
form of an unknown colored

boy who seemed eager to get in. Opening the
window the Quaker’s sister asked the stranger
what he wanted and was told the circumstances
that had brought the young slave to her house.
Joe, trembling with fear, was accordingly admit¬
ted, and after being further questioned w T as sent
up into the attic to sleep. It was not the first time
that Mrs. Sands had assisted a runaway slave in
this way.

The Quaker’s sister was a widow who lived with
her aged invalid mother. She had but one child,
Mary, to look to for help and consolation. The
three women folks dwelt alone in a wild, solitary
region, but Mary, a quick-witted, sagacious girl,
was equal to almost any man for bravery and
forethought. Mrs. Sands never felt afraid when
Mary was around.

Just as the two woman were retiring for the
night, about half an hour after the stranger had
been let in, the sound of horses in the door yard
startled them. Then came a heavy knock on the
door, followed by the sound of several voices out¬
side. Mary immediately responded to the call and
found three men-standing on the steps, impatient
to come in.

No sooner was the door opened than one of the
strangers said “Madam, we think there is a run¬
away slave about your premises. .We have been
keeping our eye on the fellow most of the even¬
ing, but he has just now slipped out of sight in
this neighborhood. We suspect he is in your
house!”

While these words were being spoken the three
men, uninvited pushed their way into the little
hall, and would have mounted the stairs in search
of Joe, had not the girl stopped them, as she poin¬
ted to the parlor at the left, where they were in¬
vited to go,

“Gentlemen,’’ replied Mary, when the three
were seated, “why should you take these liberties

in a strange house, at this hour of the night?
Have you any authority to search our home with¬
out even asking permission? And why should
you suspect us of harboring colored folks, know¬
ing, as we do, that it is against the law ?”

“Madam,” resumed the spokesman, who was no
other than Mr. Slick, Joe’s overseer, “I have with
me the sheriff, Mr. Jason, who authorises me to
search this house from top to bottom. And if you
are prepared we will begin with the attic this
moment.”

“Were I to tell you that we knew nothing of
your slave, this statement would have no weight
with you. You are determined to search our house.
This you may do presently, with our consent, but
remember that there is an invalid up stairs who
cannot be disturbed, even by the sheriff' himself,
unless he transgresses the law he pretends to
keep. I must speak to her of your presence, be¬
fore you may ascend these stairs, lest otherwise
you alarm her, and increase the fever.” And after
saying this Mary ran up stairs, leaving her
visitors in the parlor spellbound at her audacity.

After a few moments the visitors were permitted
to search the house from top to bottom, as they
had determined to do. There was but one pair of
stairs, which made it impossible for a person
above to escape without meeting the sheriff who
guarded the hall way. At first the cellar was
searched, then the parlor floor, and next the rooms
above.

“Let me give you one advice, Mr. Slick,” said
the sheriff, as the others were about to reach the
top landing, “look well in the garret! That is
where runaway slaves are usually lodged. Over¬
turn every pile of rubbish, look into every empty
barrel, leave nothing unsearched in that room !”

This was a critical moment for poor Mrs. Sands,
who stood trembling in the hall way, as pale as a
ghost. She felt sure that Joe would now be
caught, and reproach cast upon herself. But Mary
showed no signs of alarm, even at this juncture,
and offered to assist the party in making a com¬
plete search of the attic, as if she, herself, wanted
to be rid of any slave who, unbeknown to her, had
concealed himself in the house.

Accordingly, the attic was cautiously searched.
Every corner was examined. Every miscellaneous
accumulation of household ware was spread out in
the middle of the floor. At last the searchers dis¬
covered a great heap of old rags, carpets and torn
clothing, in one corner of the room. This was the
last place to be searched in the house ; and if Joe
was anywhere to be found it was certainly under¬
neath this pile of rubbish. At least Mrs. Sands
thought so as she eyed the strangers from the door,
ready to faint the very next moment. But Mary
retained her composure through it all, though try¬
ing hard to conceal a smile which now and then
hovered about her lips.

Nothing was found under the heap of rags!
Joe had escaped from the room, or by some magic
spell had made himself invisible. Surely he could
not be found by his pursuers, who were obliged to

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leave the house they had searched from top to
bottom to no advantage, but, on the contrary, to
the disgrace of Mr. Slick who had falsely, as he
now believed, charged the Sands with having con¬
cealed his runaway slave. And so, with a hundred
apologies, Slick and his friends withdrew, leaving
the widow’s house in a terrible state of confusion.

Now while the overseer was making the last
useless apology to Mrs. Sands, as he stood on the
steps, Mary hastened back to the attic, climbed up
on a box, opened the sky-light in the roof, and
called to Joe to come in. The poor negro, almost
exhausted by clinging to the gable of the roof dur¬
ing all the while the search was made inside ti e
house, now crawled hack into tlie attic, thanking
Mary, from the bottom of his heart, for the means
she had adopted of saving him from the grasp of
his ardent pursuers. Possibly his life had been
saved by the forethought of this remarkable girl.
Certainly he owed his liberty to her. She had
thought of the sky-light on the way up stairs to
inform her invalid grandmother of the presence of
the strangers, and upon this single thought de¬
pended Joe’s future career.

Having narrated this incident connected with
the perilous escape of a negro boy, we shall no
longer confine ourselves to detail in depicting
Joe’s later experiences. A friend of the Sand’s,
traveling north, took Joe with him, as his attend¬
ant, into a free state, where he found a good posi¬
tion for him in a wholesale dry-goods house. Here
he worked diligently, saving almost every cent he
could earn to pay for the liberty of his less-fortu¬
nate brother.

In the meanwhile important events in the his¬
tory of our country were rapidly taking place. In
1860 the secession of the Southern states occurred.
In 1861 Lincoln became president, and the next-
year made his memorable proclamation. In 1862
colored troops were raised for the defense of the
Union, and Samuel, Joe’s brother, was enlisted in
the Union army. The end of the struggle came
in 1865, and Sam, discharged from duty, then went
north to live with his brother.

No money was needed, after all, for the ransom
of little Samuel, for people had come to look upon
slavery as a wicked institution and the human
soul as too precious a thing to he bought with dol¬
lars and cents.

The International Postal Congress.

Nine thousand dollars are to be spent on decora¬
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JACOB’S LADDER.

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He selects four red men. If he is in front of A, for
instance, he chooses all the A-men. But if only
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as well. These men he shuts up in the little square
at his right, also lettered to correspond with the
rest. He is then ready to send his men up the
ladder, which we will now call the ruled portion.
To do this the first player places the three flat
dice numbered, 1, 1, 3, inside a tea cup or a small
deep box, shakes them well, and turns them out
on the table. If they all come out “heads up” he
adds the figures together and gets 5 moves. But if
the 3, for example, is upside-down, he only gets
two moves, because only 1 and 1 are visible. Now
supposing it is five. He then moves one of his men
over the following spaces numbered on the ladder:
1 2, 3, 4, 5. It takes nine counts to get each man
into “Paradise”—the red square in the middle,—
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end.

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YOUNG HOUSE¬
KEEPER’S
PAGE.

Dr. Nansen’s Wife.

Of Dr. Nansen’s wife not much infor¬
mation has found its way into print.
She seems to have a very imperfectly
developed taste for publicity, but what
is known of her is interesting and indi¬
cates that she is an uncommon woman,
both in talent and character. It is re¬
corded by Dr. Nansen’s biographers,
Brogger and Rolfsen, that his first meet¬
ing with his future wife was in the
woods about Frogner Seat or, where, one
day, observing the soles of two feet stick¬
ing up out of the snow, he approached
them, with natural curiosity, in time to
see the head of Eva Sars emerge from a
snowbank. Dr. Nansen was married in
1889, after his return from his success¬
ful expedition across Greenland. When
he started in the Fram, in 1893, his
wife, left at home at Lysaker, near
Christiania, with one child, turned for
occupation to the development and use
of her gifts as a singer and with notable
success.

King Oscar of Sweden is one of her
admirers, and especially likes her sing¬
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she has been in England the compli¬
ment has been paid her of asking her to
sing before the queen. She is a stanch
backer of her adventurous husband,
whose departure on his perilous errand
cost her anxieties and misgivings as to
which she said little at the time. Since
her husband’s return she has sometimes
spoken in conversation of her fears and
has said that careful comparison of Dr.
Nansen’s diary with her record or re¬
membrance of her own sensations bears
her out in the belief that the times when
she was the most concerned about him
were the seasons of his greatest peril.
That implies a telepathic communica¬
tion born of intense sympathy and so¬
licitude, the possibility of which science
seems no longer disposed to deny. Mrs.
Nansen’s father was Professor Sars, a
well known zoologist. Zoology, it will
be remembered, is a branch of science of
which Dr. Nansen has made a special
study.—Harper’s Weekly.

Our English Cousins.

Elwyn Barron is of the opinion that
English women are mentally developing
and that Englishmen are mentally de¬
teriorating. Women in the old country,
he says, are disovering that there is no
reason why they should be in moral,
physical or intellectual subordination to
man, while men have become more than
ever before dawdlers or money grubbers.
The improvement among the women is
to be noticed in their efforts to throw
off the yoke of tradition by securing
financial independence for themselves.
Time was when there was no field open
to the daughters of clergymen, of pro¬
fessional men or of widows who had
been reduced suddenly from comfortable
to necessitous condition, except going
out as governess.

There is scarcely a house in middle
class England with children which has

not its governess,' and for her services
she gets wages ranging from £10 to £30
a year. Though they receive a certain
social recognition in being allowed to
sit at table with the family, their beg¬
garly pittance puts them on a lower
earning plane than that occupied by the
cook. But there is a reaction against
this condition. Many girls of an inde¬
pendent spirit have gone into office work
with success and without sacrifice of
self respect, however much their vanity
may have suffered. They are engaged
as librarians, as nurses and in many
other capacities. A notable instance of
this type of the new woman is the
daughter of Charles Dickens, who is at
the head of a typewriting office that em¬
ploys several young ladies of good fam¬
ily and does a very profitable business.
—San Francisco Argonaut.

WOMEN MANUFACTURERS.

The Shirt and Overall Factory They Are
Conducting at Fond du Lac.

Women in Fond du Lac, Wis., have
demonstrated that woman is not out of
her sphere in the manufacturing world
and that she is able to hold her own in
a field in which heretofore the sterner
sex has held full sway. Last spring 12
Fond du Lac young women conceived
the idea of establishing a shirt and over¬
all factory, and after a few preliminary
meetings they finally incorporated them¬
selves under the name of the Fond du
Lac Shirt and Overall company, with a
capital stock of $1,200, divided into 12
shares of $100 each. Subsequently the
stock was increased to $2,000, and the

MRS. ANNA MEIKLEJOHN.

company now has 20 shareholders, all
of whom are employed in the factory
erected for the industry. The women
were given encouragement and every as¬
sistance by W. W. Collins, a local mer¬
chant, who rendered considerable serv¬
ice in the disposal of the goods at the
start. The industry has passed through
its experimental days and gives promise
of eventually developing into a most im¬
portant one for the city. The stockhold¬
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having had experience in other factories.

The capital stock was invested in sew¬
ing machines and special machinery for
making buttonholes, sewing on buttons
and for fancy sewing, the machinery be¬
ing of the latest patterns. The power is
furnished by a gasoline engine. The

only man employed in the factory is tlie
cutter. The young women now turn out
25 dozens of shirts daily, the product
being entirely negligee shirts, which re¬
tail at from 50 cents to $1 each. The
outlook is that the capacity of the plant
will soon be doubled. There are orders
now on hand which will take the entire
output of the plant for over two months
ahead. Marshall Field &Co. of Chicago
are the largest purchasers of the goods.

Difficulties were encountered, of
course, at the start, but all have been
surmounted, and it is gratifying to note
the harmony in which the young women
work and the success they are achieving.
Their push, enterprise and executive
ability have caused much wonderment,
and it is with a keen interest that Fond
du Lac people in general are watching
the development of what was in its in¬
ception considered a very unsafe venture.
A price scale has been established, and
the wages earned vary from $4 to $11
and $12 a week, according to the skill
possessed by the operator, the work be¬
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has been a balance each month above
the expenses and wages, which is turned
into the treasury to be apportioned out
in dividends. Mrs. Anna Meiklejohn,
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is the president of the company.

Gold pins made exactly like the com
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men and used to catch down flamboyant
laces and ribbons.

Small doilies the color of the lamp
shades are sometimes used at luncheons,
placed at each cover for the bread. When
this is done, a small individual butter
plate is provided.

Mr. Robert Barrett Brownirg is es¬
tablishing a school at Asolo, Italy, for
the benefit of girls employed in the silk
mills there.

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9

The Youth’s Realm.

MISS BLEMINSOP’S PARROT,

By MARTHA M’CULLOCIl WILLIAMS

[Copyright, 1896, by the Author. ]

No wonder people hated it. It waa a
cross bird, forever screaming harshly if
yon did but look at it, and a regular
tattle tale into the bargain. Miss Blen-
kinsop lived alone in a high house, just
at the corner of the village street.

He hated poor folk, especially beg¬
gars, did the. Major, for that was the
bird’s name. In full it was Major Au¬
gustus Terwilliger Blenkinsop, but even
his mistress shrank from such a mouth¬
ful as that and compromised by giving
him his title, nothing more. There was
a sort of likeness between her and her
pet. Both had hook noses and sharp,
restless eyes, not to mention the high,
shrill voices. In a way they were fond
of each other. %7hat is to say, each cared
for the other more than for anything
else. Miss Blenkinsop had lived alone
so long, indeed, she had got out of the
way of caring for anything merely hu¬
man.

“We are not beauties—not to boast
of,” she said to the bird often as he sat
on his perch beside her at breakfast.
“Our looks won’t make the world in
love with us, Major, but we can depend
on ourselves—and each other. You need
me, because without me you would not
have every mortal thing you want and
a whole house to hop about in just as
you choose, and I need you because I
want to hear something beside my own
voice in these big rooms, and human
voices bring trouble-—oh, yes, a very
great deal of trouble. ”

Then usually the Major cocked his
gray head and lifted his clumsy wings
till the crimson showed on their shoul¬
ders and tips. Sometimes he gave a low
chuckle, always he thrust his head for¬
ward for a fresh sip of Miss Blenkin-
sop’s coffee. Rarely he hopped to her
shoulder and cuddled himself under her
ear. But this she did not encourage.
People who knew her best indeed said
she had never shown a spark of affec¬
tion for anything since her sister Ag¬
nes, ten years younger than she, and
pretty as any picture, had stolen away
to marry the man who was pledged to
Miss Blenkinsop herself.

Mick, the boy who did odd jobs for
Miss Blenkinsop, hated the Major with
the deadliest hate. He had reason, too.
Mick was neither better nor worse than

other boys. He d~id whatever he had to
do well or ill according to the humor
of the minute. Sometimes he showed
himself a treasure, at others he was as
big a trial as any maiden lady ever en¬
dured. But no matter how he did, good
or ill, the Major’s story of it was al¬
ways the same. Once he caught Mick
pilfer ingfrom the cake jar. Thereafter

no day passed that h"e did not sing out
at the lad: “Stole a cr-rackerl Mick
stole ac-r racker! Mick’s a thief!” Nor
was that even the worst. From morn¬
ing to night the Major shouted at him,
orders, epithets, taunts, until Mick was
fairly beside himself.

Most of the ill words the Major pick¬
ed up from hearing them on the street.
Though Miss Blenkinsop’s tongue was
sharp, she was a gentlewoman in grain.

One fall morning the Major was like
a thing possessed. “Get out of thisl
Get out, I say! Gall the police, Mick,”
he shouted as an old white haired beg¬
gar woman paused at the steps. Then
he swore roundly, ending up with a
German oath he had picked up from
the big teamster who had the day be¬
fore hauled Miss Blenkinsop’s coal.
Then he shouted as in violent rage and
ended with a burst of laughter fairly
demoniac. The beggar woman looked
about in abject terror for the source of
the voice, then hobbled away as fast as
she could. Miss Blenkinsop, who had
just caught sight of her, leaned out of
the window to call her back, but she
was out of earshot.

“Major Augustus Terwilliger Blen¬
kinsop, that was very naughty of you.
The woman was old and looked hun¬
gry, ” Miss Blenkinsop said with a sigh.
“I shall be old myself one of these days.
You must be taught better manners.
Do you hear? Because you scolded an
Id woman and were very rude—remem-
er it is wholly because of that—you
are to be imprisoned, on bread and
water, until dinner time. Mick, come
here and take this bad bird to the dove¬
cot. ”

Mick came, laughing inly, though his
face was outwardly grave. Miss Blen¬
kinsop had already secured the malcon¬
tent to his perch with a light brass
chain. Just as she made to fasten it the
catch snapped in her hand. She ran a
bit of ribbon through the links, tied it
fast and gave the prisoner over to Mick,
saying, “Be sure you do not hurt him,
Mick, and that you do not take him
down, no matter how hard he begs, un¬
til J tell you it is time. ”

“No, ma’am,” said Mick obediently,
then marched away to the dovecot
which stood at the back of the planted
space. It had been unused for years—
was so crazy and ruinous indeed that
the door would not stay shut, and there
were big holes in one side. But the Ma¬
jor could not escape from it unless he
managed to get free of his perch. Mick
set that down carefully quite in the
middle of the floor and backed away
from it, pausing as he reached the door,
and set foot on the ladder to shake his
fist and say: “Oh, my! If only I thought
you’d stay here until I’m big enough to
quit odd jobs!”

He did his^ morning’s work in a peace

quite heavenly. Now and then at first
he heard harsh, complaining, chattel
from the direction of the dovecot, but
by and by it ceased. Then when Miss
Blenkinsop went out for some hours of
business he felt a new and delightful
sense of importance. For she gave him
the house keys and said as she did it,
“Really a quiet morning now and then
is very pleasant. ”

Of course he meant to look after
things very carefully, very faithfully,
while she was away. If the Major had
been within doors, the boy would have
tended and humored him in every way
possible. But he was outside, a prison¬
er in disgrace. Mick could not help
thinking Miss Blenkinsop was not, aft¬
er all, so fond of the creature, nor that
she would be well rid of it if it were
gone forever.

Still he would not have raised a hand
to rid her had not the Major himself
put temptation in his way. It took less
than an hour for the bird to cut through
his ribbon tether with his sharp bill.
Then a little walking about showed him
the open door, the hole in the side wall.
He peered through both cautiously un¬
til convinced neither was a trap, then
hopped outside upon the ladder Mick
had left in place, climbed down it, ran
stupidly along the ground, draggingjhis

low tree, hopped t*ence to the back
boundary wall, and after screaming at
his shrillest, “Mick’s a thief!” tumbled
into the street.

Luckily it was deserted just then.
Mick, hearing the cry, hurried out, clos¬
ing the house door after himself, ran
into the street and tried to pick up the
Major, but the parrot eluded him, flew
a few steps away and laughed mocking¬
ly, turning his head from side to side.
Mick ran after, the Major flew again,
and this was repeated until they came
quite to the end of the street. It ran
into the poor houses along the water
side. By the time they were reached
Mick was so angry he had made up his
mind to wring the Major’s neck the
minute he laid hands on him.

He would have done it, too—-the Ma¬
jor bit savagely when he found himself
in custody—but that the prettiest little
girl he had ever seen ran out from one
©f the poor houses crying: “Oh, please
don’t hurt tha-cunning .bird! Pl ease,

The Youth’s

Realm.

please don’t. “Ttem ember how mucITthe
bigger you are. 5 ’

“But he’s meaner’n any boy could
be. Oh, I don’t see how just a bird can
hold so much mean,’’ Mick protested,
his hand on the Major’s throat. The
girl held out her hand for him, saying:
“Give him to me. I love birds, and
they love me. Back in the country
where we lived they would feed from my
hand—the wild ones, you know. Come
here, sir,” to the Major. “Can you
talk? You are like a talking bird I saw
once in a fine window.”

“Oh, yes, he can talk right enough.
He tells lies mostly,” Mick said, get¬
ting red in the face. The girl had by
this got the Major in her arms and was
stroking his feathers and petting him
in a way he usually resented bitterly.
But he did not resent her touch. Instead
he nestled up against her, laid his head
back and said shrilly: “Good bird!
Good bird! Give good bird some coffee. ’’

“Oh, the dear thing, that I will.
Wait!” the girl said, running indoors,
the Major still in her arms. Mick hard¬
ly waited for the door to shut behind
her before he was off like a shot. “I
didn’t turn the old plague loose, and I
did try to catch him,” he said to his
accusing conscience as he darted home¬
ward. “ ’Twas Miss Blenkinsop herself
put him there. I didn’t give him away
neither, but, oh, I hope I shall not see
him ever again!”

******

“Why, where is that boy?” the girl
said when she came back. A white hair¬
ed old woman she had not before seen
came out of shadow to say: “Oh, he
went home, but don’t worry. Come
with me. I can show you the house the
bird belongs in. It may be worth some¬
thing to carry him back to it. ”

******

“I knew she was a witch woman
when the Major drove her away, ” Mick
always said in telling the story after¬
ward. “If she had not been, she would
never have been right there to bring
back to Miss Blenkinsop that bothering
bird and the niece named for her that
she knew nothing about. A nice girl
that Sarah Blenkinsop Maxwell, but if
it wasn’t a fairy that brought her I’d
like you to tell me why nobody has ever
seen that particular old woman from
that day to this?”

About a Wonderful Tree.

Did you ever hear of a tree bearing
glue, towels, cloth, tinder and bread?

There is just such a wonder. It is
found on the Pacific islands and it is
called the bread fruit tree.

It is about as tall as a three story
house and the branches come out straight
from the tree like so many arms. They
are covered with leaves nearly 2 feet
long and deeply gashed at the edges,
while half hidden among them is the
fruit, growing like apples on short
stems, but larger and having a thick
yellow rind.

This fruit is like bread, and it is in
season during eight months of the year,
the natives finding a good living in it.
They gather it while it is green and
bake it in an oven. Scraping off its
outer blackened crust they come to the
loaf, which is very much like nice white
bread.

As for glue, it cozes from the trunk
of the tree and is found useful for many
purposes, The.., leaves^ make excellent

towefs for the few natives who care to
use them, and from the inner bark of
the tree a kind of coarse cloth can be
made. Besides this, its dried blossoms
are used for tinder in lighting fires, and
the wood is in great demand for build¬
ing purposes.—Chicago Record.

A Hero.

He was perfectly certain, he always said—
And story books must bo true—

That somewhere over the meadows led
To the den of a robber crew.

So adown the lane with his sword and shield,
One beautiful summer day,

And over the fence to the buttercup field,

He merrily took his way.

And he laughed ho, ho! as he went along,

And put on his fiercest looks,

And he made up a kind of a battle song
As they do in the story books.

But the dragon that lived in the buttercup field
And guai'ded the robbers’ den
Came up and sniffed at his sword and shield
And opened his mouth—and then,

So somebody tells me, this brave little man—
Oh, sad to relate, but true!—

Dropped helmet and all, turned tail and ran
At the sound of that terrible “Moo!”

Still robbers there must be left to fight,

And dragons there are no doubt,

£nd it’s glorious fun if the weather is bright
And there aren’t any cows about.

—Little Folks.

A BABY PIANIST.

A Tittle Girl Who Has Won High Praise
From Celebrated Musical Critics.

Musical circles in. Vienna were inter¬
ested last year in a little pianist whose
praises were sung by no less a person
than the great critic Edward Hanslick.
It was Paula Szalit, a Galician, only 10
years old. She is the daughter of a
bank clerk in the town of Drohobicz,
and showed a marked taste for music at
an unusually early age. When she was
hardly out of long clothes, \% years
old, she would pick out on the piano
with one finger the notes of a tune that
had been sung to her, and long before
she had any idea of the printed notes
would play melodies of her own. She
even composed little ■ pieces, such as
songs, dances, etc., which, while of
course they showed no originality, sound¬
ed well and were marked by a decided
feeling for rhythm. Not until she was

PAULA SZALIT.

7 years old did the little Paula receive
any regular musical instruction. It was
given her first by her elder brother, and
then, after they had moved to Vienna,
by Profesgor .Figchoff, and for the last

year by Eugen d’Albert. The latter was
so delighted with the little girl’s talent
when she was brought to him that he
took her to his summer place on the
Starnbergee See, near Munich, to keep
up her lessons.

People say that the little Paula’s
playing is charming, not only on ac¬
count of her clear technic and the vigor
of her tone, astonishing from hands so
small that they can hardly stretch an
octave, but even more from the artistic
feeling that it shows. The little girl has
the good luck to have sensible parents,
who do not force her talent or try to
make money out of her gifts. She is be¬
ing carefully brought up with her broth¬
er and sister and not allowed to overex¬
ert herself. She has never been taken on
any concert tour, but has made a few
single public appearances in Vienna,
Prague and Berlin.—New York Trib¬
une.

A Cold Day Soldier.

This soldier white,

On guard upright,

Faced both the wind and cold,
For Captain Ted
Distinctly said,

“Stand firm, as you are told!”

The sparrows rose
And pecked his nose.

He did not move an inch.

The south wind blew,

And rain came too.

Then he began to flinch.

The rain was mild,

And, like a child,

His buttons loosed in play.

His face fell when
His gun dropped. Then
His legs both ran away.

—Youth’s Companion

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No. 118.—Geographical Acrostic: 1.
Tay. 2. Alps. 3. Scilly. 4. Milan. 5.
Anglesea. 6. Natal. 7. Ionian isles. 8.
Archangel. Initials, Tasmania.

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The Youth’s Realm.

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Construct a symmetrical if not very
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No. 123.—Crossword |nigma.

My first is in love, hut not m hate:

My second in soon, but not in late;

My third is in lunch, but not in fete;

My fourth is in dish, but not in plate;

My fifth is in Katharine, but not in Kate;
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My eighth is in eat and also in ate;

My ninth is in orange, but not in date;
My whole is a poem of a lot
Written by Sir Walter Scott.

No. 124.—Diamonds.

1. In diamond. 2. An epic poem which
celebrates the exploits of a Spanish hero.
8. A feminine name. 4. A kind of puzzle.
B. To perish in water. 6. A feminine
name. 7. In diamond.

1. A consonant. 2. Aged. 3. Level
ground. 4. Scotch city. 5. A number. 6.
A part of the body. 7. A consonant.

No. 125.—Missing Rhymes.

1 .

A rose there was, washed in a
Which Mary conveyed from her
Then to Anna she
Who said, ‘‘Look at ita
How the moisture incumbers the

2 .

gome bipeds were baked for a
Yet afterward mana ged to
And one, of a
Bereft a fair

He passed, as away he took

3 .

A draper, who dwelt in
Went forth for a holiday
And for holiday
But he galloped to
For his horse bit and bridle

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A gentleman, being asked his age, re¬
plied: “Of the two figures the right hand
one is the larger, the difference being 1.
Six-sevenths of my age is 8 less than the
whole.” What was his age?

No. 129.—Transpositions.

Transpose the following words so as to
make sentences of the nature of proverbs:

1. Your speech and your manners un¬
affected let simple be.

2. Anger than kindness better governs.

8. Bring jesting sorrows serious false¬
hoods.

4. But little many possess much who
enjoy.

5. You would to live learn to die as
wish.

6. Prudence and industry to honor
climb by men.

7. Idleness labor brings pleasure pain.

8. Another’s infirmities at a jest not
make.

9. To passion is answer the best silence.

Polished English.

“Now,” said the storekeeper as he gazed
proudly at the letters on his new brass
sign, “that’s what I call polished Eng¬
lish.”

LADIES!

^ JUST A WORD

At last, by the rapid advance
of science, it has become possible
to mahe pure concentrated flavor¬
ing extracts in powder form, con¬
taining natural flavor and origi¬
nal strength.

THE

OLD

WAY

OUSE KEEPER S

are aware that flavoring
extracts, especially va¬
nilla in liquid form, contains alco¬
hol, water, or some adulteration,
which reduces its strength. They
_ also know that bottles, corks ga¬
bels, packing, and shipping costs extra which, of
course the consumer must pay, consequently theyget
a less amount and poorer quality. When put up in
bottles it loses a certain amount of strength from
evaporation, especially after the bottle is open.

E;

VERY HOUSE-
lceeper needs vanilla fla¬
voring extract.They want
the best there is. It is es¬
sential to good cooking. There is
NO ADULTERATION
to the vanilla we sell. It is abso¬
lutely PURE — ground from

the genuine bean. For ice-cream, cakes, and other
uses, it has no equal.

To introduce it into new homes
we will send any housekeeper a
full size package for ten cents to
help pay postage and packing ex¬
penses. If you are not entirely sat¬
isfied that it is far superior to ex¬
tract usually sold in liquid form
we will cheerfully return your

money.

Madison Place Company,

No. 98 Maclison Place, Boston, Mass.

12

The Youth’s Realm

Continued from page 4.

“Jubilee; 1847-1897,” only fifty, it is said, were
sold for postal duty, the rest, having been cancelled
to order and shipped to a London firm. Another
piece of unlaudable speculation.

Some very dangerous counterfeits of the 1859, ’64
and ’82 issues of Uruguay have found their way
into some collections recently. It is almost im¬
possible to detect the 1882 varieties except by the
perforation, which seems to be 12J instead of 124.

We hear that the supply of goverment proofs
and specimens has at last given out, and that no
more are to be printed. A good thing for phil¬
ately. The movement by the Universal Postal
Union, now in session at Washington, to adopt an
international stamp has collapsed. A bad thing.

Spain is considering a plan to raise the national
debt by issuing a new set of stamps.

Mr W. A. Schmidt of Chicago has developed a
plan of-making the head of Gen. Washington dis¬
appear from the centre of a current 2c. stamp, and
a miniature photograph of any person desired
take its place upon the label. The idea has been
copyrighted, but the Government will only allow
cancelled stamps to be used for this purpose.

A common coin to be used as currency in any of
the great nations of the world is considered a neces¬
sity by those who have business relations with
foreign countries. The subject is likely to be
brought up during the present season of legislation
at Washington, and an international coin possibly
the result.

A new stamp, containing a representation of
Charity as depicted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, is to
be used for a limited time in England in aid of a
special hospital fund. News agents and stamp
dealers are receiving the stamps from headquart¬
ers at a discount of ten per cent, from face, but to
prevent speculation no party can obtain more than
a limited supply. It will probably be some
months before American collectors find these
stamps plentiful.

The Pony Express stamps have been reprinted,
but the shades of the new stamps are decidedly
off color. Hereafter- the original plates will be
kept on exhibition in the museum of the Golden
Gate Park.

A leading Chicago dealer, through advertising
an unchronicled provisional stamped envelope of
Autaugaville, Ala., received a communication from
a party who was naturally much interested in this
particular stamp. He writes, “ I want to hear
more about this [stamp] as my father was the
postmaster there [at Autaugaville] during the
war and left me quite a lot of his old P. O. papers.
I have the seal by which he made all his 5 and
10-cent postage stamps and stamped papers or en¬
velopes. What is the value of same and how
much will the old envelopes and stamps bring?”

There are, doubtless, many more Confederate
locals to be catalogued, and parties, like the above
who can furnish all the necessary information
when it shall be required.

A certain writer advises collectors to use their
influence towards holding a stamp exhibit in the
United States similar to the one about to be held
in London. No doubt such a plan would increase
the stamp interest in America quite as much as a
new issue of stamps.or some other novelty.

Mr. F. W. Ayer of Bangor, Maine, has placed
in the hands of Stanley Gibbons & Co., of London,
a magnificent collection of stamps worth nearly a
quarter of a million dollars.

There are four varieties of the 2-cent Columbus
envelopes. Two have a period after the word
“cent.” In the other two the period is omitted.

Mr. C. E. Severn sends the following humorous
note to Mekeel’s Weekly :

“A gentleman hearing a report that a certain
woman living in a village of the South had a fine
lot of old stamps, wrote a discreetly-worded letter
to her. He asked whether or not, in case she had
the stamps, she would dispose of them for cash.
In a letter bubbling over with humor, the wom¬
an, who was a widow, wrote among other things,
that she had the stamps but the man who got them
would have to take her with the stamps.”

Latest from Canada.

Mr. S. H. Boright, of Sutton, sends us the follow¬
ing information, just as we go to press :

Hear Sir:—

The Canadian Government has decided to
issue a set of Jubilee Stamps in the following num¬
bers : 150,000 4c, 8,000,000 lc, 2,500,000 2c, 20,000,
000 3c, 75,000 5c, 750,000 6c, 200,000 8c, 150,000
10c, 100,000 15c, 100,000 20c, 100,000 50c, 25,000
of the $1, $2, $3, $4 and $5. After the above num¬
ber has been issued the plates will be destroyed.

They will be put on sale in the post office on
June 10th:

Yours truly,

S. LI. Boright.

Mr. Stanley Gibbons, who witnessed the recent
burning of the Hawaiian remainders, offered $5,
000 for the stamps after half the lot had been des¬
troyed. But the officials were unwilling to with¬
hold the rest from the flames, and consequently
all but the 1894 issue went up in smoke.

There is a report that the postal authorities of
Great Britain have purchased several thousand bi¬
cycles for the use of mail carriers.

In the corner-stone of a new monument erected
at Baton Rouge, La., to commemorate the soldiers
who fell in the Civil War while fighting for the
Confederate cause, one of the rare Baton Rouge
locals, together with other articles of historic in¬
terest, is said to have been placed.

The Hutch Indies series will hereafter contain
a new value— 124 c, grey.

A set of 8 unpaid letter stamps, each in two col¬
ors, is announced for San Marino.

There is still a great demand for Mexican reven¬
ues, although the firm who did the most to pop¬
ularize them has gone out of existence.

By boiling the matter down to a thick syrup we
are able to give collectors all the stamp news
gleaned from the two continents, in a remarkably
small space. But it is the syrup that delights the
taste of most of us.

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